How about a clinical pearl thread?

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Specializes in ER, HH, CTICU, corrections, cardiology, hospice.

The title says it all.

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Specializes in ER, HH, CTICU, corrections, cardiology, hospice.

How about helping a brother out? We can all benefit.

I foud one that said for doing veinipuncture on kiddies, have them pretend to keep an imaginary feather(their favorite color) in the air by blowing it upwards. They should not feel the proceedure.

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Specializes in ICU,ER,OR.

Trust every parent's historical information as gospel when they describe an Apparent Life Threatening Event (ALTE) and use that as a working Dx until 24 hour obs on a monitor and pulse ox says they are safe.

Never, never, never dismiss these as maternal concerns.

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